Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think we can be proud of the extraordinary improvement in our intelligence and information-gathering activities in the last 20 years. When I was assigned to G-2 in 1941, I was asked to take charge of a new section that had been organized to cover everything from Afghanistan right through southern Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. The materials available to me consisted of a tourist handbook on India and Ceylon, a 1924 military attache's report from London on the Indian army, and a drawer full of clippings from the New York Times gathered since World...
...crowds began to gather at 7:30 a.m., huddling miserably under umbrellas. One man carried a little wicker stool to wait out the long hours. By 9 the line stretched a block long...
...they whip about the city in sports cars, and are lovely by night in sheer, gold-encrusted saris. The new and old rich frequent the marble-floored Willingdon Sports Club, where vegetarian diners are discreetly noted by chalk marks on the backs of their chairs, and gather on Sundays for horse racing at the Western India Turf Club, where a sign at the entrance displays an untypical bit of Bombay intolerance. It reads: "South Africans not admitted...
Leading American publishers and journalists have given Harvard's Nieman Fellow program an "unqualified endorsement" in an informal poil designed to gather opinions on the future course of the program...
South Viet Nam, uncertain under its new military junta, requires a new look on the scene by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara-and gets another in advance from TIME Correspondent Murray Gart, who flew on 26 helicopter missions in five days to gather his story...